Computerized; Daily living activities; Schizophrenia
Abstract :
[en] Deficits in everyday life functioning are a core feature of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, functional outcome is usually evaluated with questionnaires and performance-based assessments, all of which contain a number of limits. We developed a computerized real-life activity task (meeting preparation task) where participants are required to prepare a meeting room. Twenty-one individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and 21 matched healthy controls completed the task. Patients were also evaluated with a cognitive battery and measures of symptomatology and functional outcome. Results showed that performance on the computerized task significantly differentiated patients and controls for a certain number of variables. These variables, combined into a composite score, were significantly correlated with both cognitive functioning and functional outcome. Moreover, this composite score significantly predicted 39% of functional outcome, whereas a cognitive composite score did not reach significance. In addition, when the meeting task composite score was combined with symptomatology and the cognitive composite score, these measures significantly predicted 70% of functional outcome. These findings suggest that the meeting preparation task provides a valid and significant indication of the level of everyday life functioning in patients with schizophrenia, and may be viewed as a valuable instrument in both an evaluation and remediation context.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Laloyaux, Julien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Levaux, Marie-Noëlle ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive
Mourad, Haitham; Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège
Bertrand, Hervé; Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège
Domken, Marc-André; Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège
Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive
Laroi, Frank ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Language :
English
Title :
A new way of predicting everyday life functioning: Validation of a Computerized Meeting Preparation Task with persons diagnosed with schizophrenia
Publication date :
11 May 2012
Number of pages :
A0
Event name :
BAPS-SEPEX meeting
Event organizer :
University of Liège
Event place :
Liège, Belgium
Event date :
May 10 and 11, 2012
Audience :
International
Funders :
This work was supported in part by a grant from Janssen-Cilag Belgium